Expression conditions of induction strategies for the cytoplasmic inclusion bodies (IBs) production of liver targeted interferon IFN-CSP by recombinant Escherichia coli (E.coli) BL21(DE3) were optimized in shake-flask cultures in this study. The factors of the optimized protocol included in the present study were pH, inducer IPTG (isopropyl β-D-thiogalactoside) concentration, culture growth temperature, incubation time and induction point. The effects of those factors were investigated by ‘single variable at a time’ method, aimed to analyze characterization of the recombinant strain. Orthogonal experimental design was further used to optimize the above critical factors for IFN-CSP production. According to the expression optimization result, it was confirmed that the main influence factors were cell density and induction temperature. The IFN-CSP gene expression optimized conditions were:pH value of the culture medium was 6.0, culture temperature 37℃, adding IPTG to final concentration 0.4 mmol/L when the recombinant strain growth density OD600 achieved 0.8 and induction time 4 h. At this point, the IBs represented 74.3% of the total cellular protein. Compared with the non-optimized condition, IFN-CSP production obtained in optimized induction strategies were increased by approx. 1.2-fold. The optimized induction strategy yielded 688.8 mg/L of IFN-CSP, providing experimental data to study the biology activity and productive technology of IFN-CSP.
Citation: HUANGYanting, LUXuemei, WANGJie, JINXiaobao, ZHUJiayong. Optimization of Expression Conditions of an Induction Strategy for Improving Liver Targeted Interferon (IFN-CSP) Production in E.coli. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2014, 31(2): 432-438. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.20140080 Copy